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author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200 |
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committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200 |
commit | 2ec618c9feac4573b154510236ad8121c77d0eca (patch) | |
tree | 5a0d1b003e7829d735719a7795c5cdeb9959a74d /runtime/doc/channel.txt | |
parent | b3435b0a3a0967115658d0a8c0224a28969cfa02 (diff) | |
download | vim-git-2ec618c9feac4573b154510236ad8121c77d0eca.tar.gz |
Updated runtime files.
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/channel.txt b/runtime/doc/channel.txt index 7c286f3aa..6588c9e79 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/channel.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/channel.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*channel.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Sep 20 +*channel.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Sep 29 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -465,6 +465,11 @@ it like this: > Without the handler you need to read the output with |ch_read()| or |ch_readraw()|. You can do this in the close callback, see |read-in-close-cb|. +Note that if the job exits before you read the output, the output may be lost. +This depends on the system (on Unix this happens because closing the write end +of a pipe causes the read end to get EOF). To avoid this make the job sleep +for a short while before it exits. + The handler defined for "out_cb" will not receive stderr. If you want to handle that separately, add an "err_cb" handler: > let job = job_start(command, {"out_cb": "MyHandler", @@ -516,7 +521,7 @@ If the job can take some time and you don't need intermediate results, you can add a close callback and read the output there: > func! CloseHandler(channel) - while ch_status(a:channel) == 'buffered' + while ch_status(a:channel, {'part': 'out'}) == 'buffered' echomsg ch_read(a:channel) endwhile endfunc |